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10.20.2009

jesse and i went to our favorite dessert place, Rita's, last week after our weekly sushi date. we had the bug with us and the kid behind the counter asked if we wanted a baby cone for him. i was like, "uh, he's 4 months old, he doesn't really eat things yet." but we thought we could get him to hold it and it would be a good picture, especially since he was looking so all-american already in his baseball hat, boat shoes and middle school softball coach shorty-shorts.

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he's getting much more portable and needing to go places in his carseat (the plastic maiden) less and less..

outside Mr. Fuji. i thought this would be a fun idea to take a pic of all 3 of us. it took us several tries. then i realized that although the upper blinds in the restaurant were closed, the bottom ones were wide open making us into the very people that we love to rip on who use reflective surfaces to look at themselves, oblivious to the people on the other side mocking their vanity.

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we got awesome new insurance that includes vision, so i got glasses for the first time since freshman year. lisaloeb?

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sweet boys. with our new car in the background.

heaven somewhere in between

sorry, too many cute pics and no place to put them...ok so back to the ice cream (frozen custard, actually) cone story. well not only did he hold it, he immediately put the correct portion of the cone in his mouth (and nose). and not in a "i'm a baby, i aimlessly put things in my mouth to experience them" sort of way. he put it in with a "i know this is ice cream and need to eat it NOW" way. so i quickly snapped a picture.

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.5 seconds after handing it to him

well, after a few seconds i realized this was video material. he went to TOWN on that cone as if he knew we were going take it away soon and needed to get as much of it in his face as time would allow. we couldn't even believe how well he was doing. but, i started to feel less amused and more like a horrible mom for giving the 4 month old an ice cream cone. you can hear me asking the worker, "why did you do this?" like it was his fault. i guess there's some things you don't have to teach kids, they're just born knowing how to do. (to be fair though, he already had months of practice extracting dairy materials from "cones" before we ever walked into Rita's that day)

I periodically stop by and watch this video because it is so hilarious. And I'm reminded you write really well too. Yall are awesome! Hard to believe Judah was this little and squishy with his 24/7 kissy mouth face :-)